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I am building a similar machine to play the even moves (X) 2nd,4th,6th. This requires 3,38,151,boxes (I think) am I correct?
nick
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@nick: I make it 3, 38, and 153. Plus you'll need 95 boxes for the 8th moves.

There's pdfs of the positions you'll need in this folder if its helpful: https://github.com/mscroggs/MENACE-pdf... - they're in the files called second_boxes*.pdf
Matthew
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